Chapter 670 Why does this monster keep coming in waves?
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On the north shore of the Baiyue Strait, in the northwest section of Fries Port, behind a one-step-wide trench is a three-meter-high earth wall, and in front is a fence wall made of sharpened wooden stakes.
In the grass not far from the fence wall, there were corpses lying scattered on the ground.
Most of them are left behind by alien species, and a few are players who were caught off guard.
Looking at the corpses on the ground and the mud that was almost dyed red with blood, Yin Leina, who turned off the safety of her rifle, suddenly said with a subtle expression.
"I always have an illusion."
The elf king Fugui standing aside looked at him. "How do you feel?"
Glancing around the dense rainforest and grass ahead, Yin Leina thought for a long time and said in an uncertain tone.
"...This land seems to be alive."
The blood-stained tree shadows and rustling grass swayed, looking particularly dazzling under the blazing sunlight, especially the chirping insects floating out of the shadows, like the whispers of monsters, and the dense rain forest was
That monster's mouth...
This wasn't the first time he had this feeling.
He had this feeling when he went out to look for water for the first time...
........
Time goes back to two hours ago.
When the sky was still dark and bright, more than twenty diligent power-type players got online early and carried axes and chainsaws to clear up wasteland in the forest northwest of the camp.
"Brothers, work harder! Try to see the top of the mountain before dark!"
"Ouch!"
There is a relatively high hill on the northwest side of Chipout Port. Not only does it have a wide view, it overlooks the entire Chipout Harbor, but also the nearly ten kilometers of coastline.
Not only that, there are also abundant fresh water resources and "ruin mines" common in the wasteland in the nearby area, which shows its strategic significance.
If the highlands on the northwest side can be controlled, it will undoubtedly be of great help to the development of Chip Port.
Therefore, in order to facilitate the land reclamation work, the Player Autonomous Committee of Potato Port unanimously decided to build a road leading to that highland to facilitate vehicle commuting.
The work of clearing the roadblocks was contracted to a caravan registered in the Merchant Guild named "Dog Haunted" for a price of 100,000 silver coins.
In "Wasteland OL", the caravan system is comparable to the corps system, which is equivalent to the guild organization of professional players.
After winning the bid for the project, the leader of the caravan immediately hired a group of strength animals to rush into the northwest forest area.
However, before the work had been done for half an hour, more than thirty mutated spiders suddenly rushed out of the jungle and collided with the players who were working at Hengchihengchi.
Those spiders are as tall as a man, with colorful faces like butterfly wings. They can spray extremely sticky silk threads to bind their prey and tear it apart with their dagger-sized fangs.
"What the hell! What the hell is this?!"
The player who first caught sight of this monster was almost frightened to the point of disconnecting on the spot. Fortunately, his psychological quality was pretty good, so he caught
He picked up the ax and swung it forward. The heavy ax blade smashed into the spider's head and splashed slurry.
"whispering sound--!"
The mutated spider let out a shrill cry and staggered back a few steps.
The player was about to catch up and hit him, but before he even took a step, he was hit by a white thread shot from the side. Without even seeing his opponent, his ribs were torn open by a huge force.
Seeing the condition of his teammates, the player not far from the man immediately threw away his axe, took off the assault rifle from his back, opened the safety and shouted loudly.
"Enter the enemy--!"
In fact, if there is enough distance, a few dozen mutated spiders will never be the opponent of this group of players with strong martial arts.
However, the monsters in this game have never had martial ethics, and they don't even say hello when they appear.
In addition, there are dense jungles and shrubs nearby, and several power-type players wielding axes and chainsaws were almost immediately struck by the sticky lake as soon as they saw the shadows of the spiders.
Hu's face was full of silk thread, and he lost his ability to resist on the spot.
Fortunately, their location was not far from the camp wall, and players who were operating nearby immediately came to support them.
The bursts of gunfire drowned out the fighting in the jungle, and traces of light penetrated the leaves and the carapace mixed with juice.
Facing the fire from thermal weapons, the silk spinning and fangs of the mutated spiders were still slightly inferior, and the battle situation quickly changed from an evenly matched battle to a one-sided fight.
After leaving behind more than a dozen corpses, the monsters probably realized that these two-legged animals were not easy to deal with, so they hurriedly retreated deep into the jungle.
The players who won the battle counted the losses and loot, untied the unlucky ones bound by spider silk, and dragged the bodies of the dead players back to the camp, ready to be sent to the active substance extractor recovery point to synthesize clones.
s material.
After the battlefield was cleaned, everything seemed to be back to normal.
The players in Friesport continue to be busy with their own affairs, cutting down trees, fishing, collecting ashes, and going out for adventures.
However, just when everyone thought that today's troubles were over, in less than two hours, more than a dozen mutant cheetahs with ugly faces and sparse hair came to look for trouble.
These animals also don't even say hello, and they come without warning. When they see people, they pounce on them and bite them.
The injured this time were still the "dog-infested" caravans and the strength animals hired by the caravans.
Although the perception players they hired temporarily had a premonition of the threat in advance, they still only had a few seconds to prepare.
Many people had just thrown away the felling wood and electric saws in their hands, and before they had time to pick up and load the rifles leaning on the side, they saw a dozen monsters rushing towards their faces.
The combat effectiveness of this wave of mutant cheetahs is not comparable to that of the previous mutant spiders, and the casualties caused by this attack are much more serious than those two hours ago.
In just half a minute, nearly ten unlucky children were thrown to the ground and bitten to death, and only a few of them retreated quickly.
Looking at the messy logging camp, the "dog-infested" caravan captain looked like he was about to cry without tears.
"This dog planner must have a grudge against me!" Yin Leina patted his shoulder sympathetically. "Sorry, brother."
He and Elf King Fugui happened to be at the door just now. When they heard the gunfire, they went up with other players to help.
Just like the previous attack, this group of mutated cheetahs turned around and ran into the woods after leaving ten corpses.
Yin Leina always had a feeling that these alien species seemed to have made an appointment and took turns coming to the door of their camp to give away their heads.
"...Have you noticed that the alien species that have attacked our camp in the past few days have been coming in waves, and they are divided into groups according to their types?"
Elf King Fugui said with a subtle expression.
"Fortunately, they come one after another. If a large group of them came at once, our camp might not be able to survive it."
"That's not necessarily the case... No matter what, let's collect the prey first."
Yin Leina smiled, leaned down and held up the mutated cheetah she had just killed. She looked at Elf King Fugui and called out, "Come and help me."
We can't let our dead brothers die in vain. "Okay!"
Seeing that Lao Na had already started cleaning the battlefield, Elf King Fugui immediately threw the gun on his back, stepped forward and hugged the mutant cheetah's two hind legs.
The two men carried the prey back to the camp one after another, and brought the dead leopard to the killing point not far from the west entrance of the camp.
A player wearing a leather apron was scraping his boning knife on the whetstone. Looking at the blood all over his body, you could tell that this guy hadn't rested since morning.
His name is Qing Deng Gu Jiu. I heard that he is a doctor in real life, but for some reason he becomes an irrelevant butcher in the game.
Looking at his skillful movements, Elf King Fugui couldn't help but guess in his heart that this guy probably didn't have the nerve to say that he was a veterinarian.
Moreover, this ID is both a lamp and a wine. It sounds like he is an uncle who was born in the 1970s or 1980s. He must be an old veterinarian.
Looking at the two people walking towards with the prey in their arms, Qingdeng Gujiu wiped his sweat, glanced at it and moved his chin towards the electronic scale on the side.
"Weigh yourself on the scale." "Ok!"
Yin Leina threw the mutated cheetah on the scale, and Elf King Fugui walked up and talked to the boss with a smile.
"Business is good, brother."
Qingdeng Gujiu said with a smile. "Harm, just make some hard money." Elf King Fugui asked curiously. "By the way, are you really a veterinarian?"
"It's a - bah, it's a hammer, what kind of veterinarian? I'm a doctor!" He suppressed the words that came to his lips and Qingdeng Gujiu gave this guy a fierce look.
The Elf King Fugui didn't take it seriously and continued with a playful smile.
"Really? Then you get off work so early and don't even work overtime?"
Qingdeng Ancient Wine waved his hand.
"Hey, join the hammer class, I resigned a few days ago." "Resigned?" Elf King Fugui was stunned for a moment, "Why?" Qingdeng Ancient Wine said with a smile.
"There's no reason for this. I don't have many people in my small clinic, and I only get a dead salary in a month. The boss thinks I'm annoyed, and I think the boss is annoyed enough. I might as well come here to work, and it's easy for a month.
Wouldn’t it be nice to make more than 100,000 yuan? When I get rich, I can open a hospital myself!”
"666!" Elf King Fugui looked at this brother with admiration. He would not waste money like this if he was rich.
Wouldn’t it be nice to keep it in the bank?
The two were chatting for a while when Yin Leina, who had finished weighing her prey, walked over from the electronic scale and interrupted their banter with a smile.
"It's sixty-five kilograms in total. Boss, how much do you think is appropriate?"
Qingdeng Ancient Wine thought for a moment and said, "I'll pay some compensation. Can I pay 217?"
Before Lao Na could speak, the Elf King Fugui said with a smile, "Let's round up 220. We have to split it in half to get exactly 110."
Qingdeng Gujiu said cheerfully, "Okay, deal!"
While rolling up her sleeves and showing off her VM, Yin Leina couldn't help but sigh, it seemed like this guy had indeed made a lot of money as a butcher.
I didn't even bother to pay back the offer.
After transferring the money to Lao Na and Lao Wang, Qingdeng Gujiu dragged the prey on the scale to the back of the stall and left it under the shed for the time being, planning to deal with it later.
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There was already a lot of prey piled under the not-so-large shed, most of which were dragged from the woods outside the west entrance of the camp.
The meat of mutated cheetahs has an average taste, not much different from that of mutated hyenas. After slaughter, it is usually dried and salted to make jerky and sold to expedition teams in need of dry food.
It just so happens that we are right on the beach, and the most indispensable thing is salt.
Dried meat actually doesn’t sell for much money. What really sells for money is the skin of a mutated cheetah. This thing is much more expensive than the deer skin of a mutated elk. Since there aren’t many in the market right now, whether it’s shipped back
The Alliance can still make a lot of money by taking it to Silver Moon Bay and selling it.
In addition to mutant cheetahs, there are also mutant spiders.
Although a certain intelligence player has proven with his life that the mutated spider in this rainforest cannot be eaten, its silk glands and poison sacs are both good things.
The mutated spiders in the Baiyue Province are much larger than the mutated spiders in the River Valley Province, and the quality of the dropped materials is also much higher.
Although in just one morning, more than ten players died in the survivors of French Fries Port, but overall it was not a loss.
In general.
Looking at the string of numbers on the VM screen, the Elf King Fugui, who was walking towards the entrance of the camp, suddenly muttered something coldly.
"Lao Na, who do you think has been buying silver coins?" He had been curious about this question a long time ago.
Although most players start playing the game part-time, it won't take long for them to become professional players like him who spend an average of 16 hours online every day.
If the character doesn’t need to sleep in the game, he needs to eat in reality
With food and exercise, he might just move into the world of "Wasteland Online".
It has nothing to do with addiction.
It's just that this world is too realistic.
It's like starting your life again, and you won't die.
But if you think about it carefully, there are still many strange things.
For example, the mysterious operator of "Wasteland OL", or the group of mysterious buyers at the "Bank Exchange" who work day and night to purchase goods.
Because of a certain "unspoken" tacit understanding maintained between the two parties, the closed beta players of "Wasteland OL" only need to do two random tasks in the game to meet their real life needs. The playing time will be slightly longer.
Son, if you abide by the rules of the game which are not very strict, you will be able to live peacefully in reality and even become a prostitute.
It feels like there is a group of people raising them in vain, wishing they could spend all their time in "Wasteland Online".
He doesn't dislike this feeling. After all, he enjoys this completely immersive gaming experience, and his material desires in reality have also dropped a lot.
He just didn't quite understand.
What are these "big shots" behind the scenes planning?
"Hey, if someone is willing to buy it, then of course it will be useful. Why are you so idle?" Yin Leina glanced at him sideways and teased with a funny look on her face.
The Elf King Fugui thought for a while and said with great imagination.
"I said what if, there are only tens of thousands of players in the game now and I can't see the problem. But when the game is released for public testing, so many people will not go to work and go to the game to earn money. The society will not be in chaos."
Yin Leina: "e...Is it possible that silver coins can be exchanged for something that makes people no longer need to work, or that some jobs do not require so many people."
The Elf King Fugui was stunned for a moment. "What do you mean?"
Yin Leina said casually.
"Literally, for example, in the past, people in Dawn City relied on strength-based animals to move bricks. Now a set of miner exoskeletons can allow an ordinary person to do the work of five people. Doesn't this mean that there will be four more people who don't work?
No matter whether they are cleaning dust, knocking furniture or lying on the bed to work on the subsistence allowance, they are much more comfortable than when five people move bricks together."
Of course, this algorithm only discusses the total amount of social wealth created by unit labor force, and does not involve distribution methods and other issues.
The improvement of productivity is only a necessary but not sufficient condition for the improvement of living standards. It is not impossible to live a high-tech and low-quality life like the Bugla Free State.
But there is always one thing that is beyond doubt. Since someone is willing to pay to hire them to play in the game, it must be their gaming behavior of earning silver coins in "Wasteland OL", which has created a society that matches the money.
value.
There have been rumors on the forum before that in every auction after the expansion pack ends, the items auctioned are actually some black technologies.
Some people even made special observations.
Shortly after each auction ends, there will be some moderate rumors in the industry or academia that a certain key technology has made a major breakthrough.
After a while, when people come to their senses, many people have already used the results of those technological breakthroughs.
He still remembers the time when "Wasteland OL" was first launched,
Smartphones can only be put on standby for a day or two at most, but I don’t know what happened later.
Starting from that day, major mobile phone brands have successively launched models with ultra-long battery life of one week.
Then came new energy vehicles, with their cruising range suddenly doubling, many batteries, and the market value of new energy vehicle companies more than doubling.
Elf King Fugui scratched the back of his head: "You mean, can silver coins buy a miner's exoskeleton in reality?"
Yin Leina made a helpless expression.
"I'm just giving an example, and I'm not saying it has to be an exoskeleton. It could also be something more basic that has a wider impact on various industries, such as technologies related to the three fields of energy, information, and materials."
When it comes to this,
He couldn't help but make a joke.
"Maybe one day the reality will become like the era of prosperity. If everyone is happy, they will work for two days. If they are not happy, they will fire the boss and go to the moon to play. You are still worried that no one will work after the open beta of this game.
?I’m sure the Earth’s President will wish you guys with nothing to do would move bricks in the game!”
Elf King Fugui: "Damn it, Era of Prosperity is just a game setting, what the hell is the ball length?"
Yin Leina rolled her eyes.
"So let me say what if, you don't have any dreams at all!"
Elf King Fugui frowned and thought for a while.
"But if according to what you said, there really is that kind of black technology that can make everyone do not have to work, I feel that we have to solve the problem of nuclear fusion..."
But these crucial and outrageous technologies don’t exist on earth. You can’t just conjure them out of thin air, right?
Could it be that the operator of "Wasteland OL" researched it themselves?
Is there such an awesome organization in the world that single-handedly promotes the scientific and technological progress of an entire civilization?
No--wait.
If you think about it carefully, the company that runs "Wasteland OL" is indeed pretty awesome.
Not to mention the game helmet they launched that is completely immersive and allows people to spend a second life in a dream. It is outrageous that no one knows the specific name of this company until now.
!
Sometimes the elf king Fugui even couldn't help but wonder if their dear Aguang had been abducted by aliens.
"...No matter what it is, there is no doubt that the technology is very expensive. Maybe silver coins are so expensive for this reason."
Patting Lao Wang on the shoulder, Yin Leina joked and continued.
"For a better tomorrow, for reality to enter an era of prosperity as soon as possible, for our old king to be able to buy a bionic maid in reality as soon as possible... let's first think about which ruins to dig up today?"
Compared with those distant things, this is a more realistic problem.
The income from hunting is just ammunition money for these "advanced gamers". If they really want to make a fortune, they have to start from those relics of the pre-war era.
Hearing Lao Na's teasing, Elf King Fugui came back to his senses from his random daydreams, and then smiled and said.
"Ah, that's easy to say. Let's wait a while and someone will come to send the task."
Yin Leina was stunned for a moment.
"Someone sent a mission?"
"Well, I heard from the guy Ye Shi that this time the scientific expedition team will come with the Cow Horse and open a branch here at the French Fries Port. I remember they set off the night before yesterday. They should be here by now. Almost there--
The Elf King Fugui raised his head and glanced at the sky.
Coincidentally, before he finished speaking, two silver-white figures appeared in his sight, floating one behind the other below the clouds.
His eyes suddenly lit up.
"Good guy! It's already here!" And two more ships are coming?!
Yin Leina took out the VM and took a look at it. The [Scientific Expedition Team] sub-option that was originally grayed out in the task interface became selectable again.
He immediately clicked on it and took a look, and a line of eye-catching "Regional Tasks" suddenly caught his attention.
[Task: Find the Brood of Baiyue Province] [Published by: Alliance Biological Research Institute]
[Explanation: According to the clues obtained by the Alliance Biological Research Institute through the analysis of the original strain of Naguo, Baiyue Province is suspected to have or once had a mother nest of mutant slime mold, and the abnormal biological evolution of Baiyue Province may be related to this. 】
[Requirement: Find it!]
[Reward: Provide any valuable clues to get phased mission rewards. The player or team that finally finds the nest will unlock the limited title of "Jungle Conqueror" and receive a total of 10,000 contribution points and 1 million silver coins as rewards! 】
When she saw the task reward column, Yin Leina was stunned for half a minute, until she heard an exclamation from the side.
“What the fuck?! A million?
!”
I don't know when I opened the taskbar. Looking at the long series of numbers on the VM screen, Elf King Fugui's eyes widened.
Especially when he noticed that this mission was extended from the Nagobacterium strain sample they had collected before, the expression on his face suddenly felt as uncomfortable as constipation.
"Gan! This dog's head is too dark!"
He remembered correctly, that sample seemed to have only sold for 10,000 silver coins! After deducting the loss of equipment, which is one point for ten people, each person only received a few hundred silver coins on average.
This is like a loss to grandma’s house!
(I originally wanted to time it... my hand slipped and I went out.)